Description

Circa 1800. 2-storey 3-bay asymmetrical tenement. Coursed sandstone rubble walls with droved dressings, roughcast rear and side elevations. Eaves course, raised margins at window and door openings, projecting cills.

NE (KIRK STREET) ELEVATION: entrance door to pend at ground to outer left, 3 windows at ground floor flanking.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: 3 bays, with entrance door to pend at ground floor bay to outer right.

12-pane timber sash and case windows, 2-leaf vertically-boarded entrance door with rectangular fanlight above. Grey slate roof with cast iron gutters and downpipes. Skew copes at NW gable end, coped stack with circular cans at apex. No skew copes or stack at SE gable.

Statement of Interest

This small tenement, a fragment of a former terrace, is a significant survivor of the planned burgh of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and is a reminder of the former appearance of the town.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17774122

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)